Penguincw: < Domdaniel: Are there still people who think 1.g3 is eccentric or weird? Like 1.Nf3, it almost always transposes - to a King's Indian Attack, or Fianchetto Grunfeld, Reti, English, etc. Even a Sicilian, if you swing that way. >

turbo231: I must be playing the Budapest or something similar because I always get massacred when I play Houdini 1.5a.

No wonder I can't survive more than 27 moves against Houdini 1.5a (I leave Houdini's ponder on) it's more of a challenge (as if playing against Houdini with the ponder turned off wasn't challenging enough!)

I have Houdini's level set @ 20moves in 20 minutes, my level is not set so I can take as long as I want, sometimes an hour per move (or longer). But while I'm taking my time Houdini is pondering. And I always play with black. I wish I could make it to 30 moves! That's my goal.

Domdaniel: <notyetagm> My apologies. The comment about openings and persons who are not (yet) GMs was uncalled-for.

As it happens, I don't care for the Budapest much: it leads to the wrong kind of chaos. Piece activity alone - and a fragile sort of activity at that - is not good enough against a strong player.

But it remains playable, I suspect, for those willing to take their chances - despite the latest massacre. One can find catastrophic losses in any opening - only when they become inevitable is anything proven. I am sometimes vaguely irritated by people who think that a large number of playable openings are eccentric, unsound, or worse.

They tend not to know any better. But you do, which is probably why I made my peevish comment.

polarmis: Sergey Shipov continues to take an alternative look at the European Championship. Here he is talking about the physical conditions... and certain physiological matters that affect games of chess more than you'd expect :)

Harvestman: Just because a GM played an unusual opening and lost, doesn't mean one shouldn't pay attention to the game. You might, for example, look at the way the victorious player overcame the so-called lesser opening.

I've played a few Budapests in my time, but then I'm nowhere near being a strong player, found, like <Domdaniel>, that I don't much like the positions that I get. Give me a good sound reliable Alekhine's Defence every time :-)

Hovik2009: Armenian players in overall really suck in this tournament, I wonder they are tired of winning or losing in the end or may be because they have one and only Aronian, so they are fond of sitting on their hand while feeling cool!

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